Vinyl is art...

[clubsynthetic]

Interesting way of looking at things.
And yes, the new formats can, if the "artist" in unscrupulous, be very automated.
But then it`s up to those in the know to keep these people in check really.
Both the promoters and the Punters should keep aware of what is happening.
I`ve seen many hardware live acts miming liive. Most of the psytrance lot play from dat and mime.
The infamous Lab 4, famed for their live act (and very nice guys) totally fake it, play a CD and just mime behind mountains of keyboards.
So the technology is almost irrelevent, people will get away with faking it, if we let them.
Lets not lose too much perspective though, how hard is it really to play 2 records together? It`s not that much of a physical task either.
However, the whole point of a DJ is to play music that gets people moving by playing great music. Why do we expect them to perform now?
Is the music so droll we are bored of dancing and now need to stare at the DJ and wait for them to entertain us like a dancing monkey?
The dance music scene has always been driven by the music, and when it becomes driven by the cult of personality, it becomes wrong in my opinion, and we get people like Tiesto and that whole crock of shit that comes with it.
It slowly becomes another form of pop music then.
Dancing monkeys and organ grinders.

i suppose technology isn't important at all, just what one is doing with it. I just get the feeling that the more technology allows one to be lazy, the more one will be in general.

The reason i expect djs to perform is the fact that thats what separates them these days from any other old dj. Indeed, the music is the most important thing. I just cream when i see a good performer play good music. As long as the music is good. If not, the artist in question looks very, very bad. I think its charisma what gets me by the baws.

i would have given my right arm for Gayle San when i seen her play at dogma.